Step away from the city
The new towns represent part of a national policy of decentralization of population from congested areas. Their significance and value will no;v be discus …
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Solving London’s population problems
The building of new towns is not the only way in which the problem of population pressure in London has been combatted. The London …
London Suburbs: Hemel Hemsptead
Hemel Hempstead lies in the heart of the Chilterns 24 miles north west of London. It is located at the junction of the valleys of …
London’s outer Towns
After the founding of Letchworth and Welyn, no new towns were started in Britain until almost thirty years later. One of the major events in …
London Suburbs: Basildon
The site of the New Town of Basildon lies just north of the Thames estuary, mid way between London and Southend on Sea. It is …
Planning the city
Man has been planning and building New Towns since the earliest records of history. They have arisen for reasons of strategy, politics, colonial advancement, social …
A new London
The idea of limiting the population of cities has been recorded as far back as Spartan tirnes, but it was Plato1 who suggested the fir …
The Garden City
The tentative gropings of the nineteenth century reformers and philanthropists were eventually clarified into a workable synthe sis by the activities of Ebenezer Howard, an …
The new towns movement
The distribution of the fifteen new towns in Britain is something that this country has long needed. Twelve of them, in England and Wales, are …
London Suburbs: Bracknell and Crawley
The site of Bracknell, chosen as a substitute for White Waltham, lies west of London, 11 miles south of the Thames in a beautiful area …